Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions -- that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal.

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

- I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava.